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May 4, 2023 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Is This The New George Floyd?

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	Well, we're nearing the summer, and that means it's time for some riots.
	I mean, this is what we do.
	It's sort of the annual tradition here in the United States.
	Every summer, we have a bunch of race riots now.
	This is the thing that we like to do, and we need some sort of hook to hang those riots on.
	Well, the media have found their newest hook.
	It's the case of a person named Jordan Neely.
	So, who exactly is Jordan Neely?
	He's a 30-year-old psychotic black homeless man living in New York with an arrest record as long as your arm, 44 prior arrests.
	Why is Jordan Neely at the center of the news?
	Well, the reason is because he is dead.
	The reason that he is dead is because he was apparently on a subway car and he started screaming at and harassing the various passengers on the subway car.
	According to Alberto Vasquez, Juan Alberto Vasquez, who's a freelance journalist, he said he started screaming in an aggressive manner.
	He said he had no food.
	He had no drink.
	He was tired and doesn't care if he goes to jail.
	He started screaming all these things, took off his jacket, a black jacket that he had, and threw it on the ground.
	Starting to get more and more agitated in front of the people on the subway car.
	At this point!
	A 24-year-old passenger stepped in, a white passenger, who is apparently a Marine, and he put Jordan Neely in a submission hold.
	Now, they don't see a choke hold and a submission hold.
	Again, this goes back to police procedures.
	This guy's a Marine, not a policeman.
	But the idea in a submission hold is that, essentially, you're putting pressure on the arteries.
	And what that does, it cuts off blood flow to the brain.
	It's supposed to knock you out.
	It's not supposed to kill you.
	Submission holds are what you see in, for example, UFC.
	So, this guy is using what looks like a triangle hold.
	police department because if you damage the trachea very often the person dies.
	Submission holds are what you see in for example UFC.
	So this guy is using what looks like a triangle hold, it's a form of submission hold.
	Well Jordan Neely ended up dying.
	So, this video, which you're about to see, it's hard to watch because it's a person who's being subdued.
	What you will notice in this video, however, is a couple of things.
	One, you will see that throughout the video, Jordan Neely continues to be incredibly agitated.
	Again, this is a person who was arrested multiple times for drug problems.
	He's apparently schizophrenic, psychotic, etc.
	He's being subdued by this 24-year-old white Marine, and there's another person who's attempting to subdue him.
	The other person who's not been mentioned in virtually any of the media reports is a black man who's attempting to subdue Jordan Neely.
	And the minute that Jordan Neely becomes unresponsive, the minute that he stops struggling, somebody says he's not struggling anymore, and the Marine lets him go.
	It doesn't matter because the media treat this as though this is a case of murder, as we'll get to in just one second.
	Again, that is largely based on the race of the people involved.
	If this were a black Marine who had subdued a black man, Or if this were a Black Marine who had subdued a psychotic white man screaming at people with an arrest record as long as you're armed on a subway, then presumably we'd have stories about the heroism of protecting the surrounding population from people who have a history of violence.
	I mean, Jordan Neely does have a history of violence.
	This is a person who has an outstanding arrest warrant right now, like today, for assaulting a 67-year-old woman in New York City.
	So here's what the video looked like.
	So you can see, this is caught on film by that one, Alberto Vasquez, that Jordan Neely continues to struggle.
	The marine is obviously not doing this maliciously.
	I mean, he's, you know, kind of casually holding him there in an attempt to subdue him.
	And there are two other men who are attempting to also subdue this guy.
	One is white, one is black.
	They're trying to subdue him because apparently he's threatening.
	And then he's on the floor and he's non-responsive.
	The train was stopped, the doors opened at the Broadway-Lafayette-Street-Bleecker-Street station, where Vasquez said the conductor had called 911.
	Apparently he lost consciousness after being put in the chokehold.
	EMS workers at the station were unable to revive him.
	The person who was subduing him, again, a Marine veteran, was taken into custody, later released without charges.
	Now, the investigation is ongoing, so they may try to bring charges against him.
	It's New York City.
	So, again, attempting to subdue somebody who is getting violent with the passengers may be a chargeable offense in New York City.
	Being actually violent with the passengers?
	Like, apparently, there are a bunch of people online claiming that this same person, Jordan Neely, had attempted to push them onto subway tracks before.
	That, you just are let out on the streets willy-nilly in New York City.
	That's not a problem.
	Unless you actually push somebody on the tracks and they get hit by a train, at which point we arrest you.
	In New York City, if you violate the law dozens and dozens of times, you will just be out on the street, released in the general public.
	And by the way, this is the general rule.
	The general rule is, if you, as a society, decide that you're not going to police crime, you know who could have done something about this?
	Cops.
	That would have been great.
	And it's not as though this person hadn't had interactions with cops.
	The person is dead because the system decided that it was not worthwhile protecting either the public from Jordan Ely or protecting Jordan Ely from himself.
	Or protecting Jordan Ely from the public, because it turns out that leaving people who are psychotic on the streets to threaten others generally ends with somebody else who is not a cop stepping in to do something about it.
	Your choices in a society are to either outsource the legitimate use of force to the cops and then allow the cops to actually use force in order to subdue people who are violently threatening others, or you're going to get the predictable ramifications of not doing that, which is others will step in to defend themselves and others.
	There is no third choice where psychotically violent people just run around being psychotically violent with no repercussions whatsoever.
	According to the New York Post, as soon as people start expressing worry about Neely's well-being, The other people just let him go.
	The two people who are subduing him there, they let Neely go after a few seconds, leaving him lying on his side on the ground, presumably.
	Vasquez, who's filming it, said he had mixed feelings about the fatal encounter, particularly since he and Neely had not physically attacked anyone on the train before being taken down.
	He said, I think in one sense it's fine citizens want to jump in and help, but I think as heroes we have to use moderation.
	He said, this would never have happened if the police had shown up within five minutes.
	Then we would be talking about a true hero.
	It's complicated.
	That's correct.
	That's correct.
	So the medical examiner has ruled that the subway rider choked Neely to death.
	Or at least it's been ruled a homicide, which generally speaking, when a medical examiner rules a homicide, it just means that it wasn't a suicide and it wasn't natural causes.
	That's all that it means.
	It doesn't mean murder, a homicide.
	According to the medical examiner, Neely was homeless, had been screaming at passengers.
	Medical examiner says that they're going to go through the full investigation.
	The incident comes, according to the New York Times, as the city grapples with how to reduce both crime and the number of people with mental illness living on the streets while also respecting the rights of its most vulnerable residents.
	Now again, the race component here cannot be ignored.
	We'll get to that in just one second.
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	So, as said...
	There are multiple people online who are claiming that Jordan Neely attempted to push them on the subway tracks, for example.
	One Twitter account said, I'm pretty sure I had a run-in with this guy a few weeks ago on the F. He was throwing around a city bike and yelling about how he was going to kill people.
	Most left the car, but this poor Asian lady got stuck by him, so a few of us couldn't leave her alone with him.
	If it's the same guy, yeah, he was either going to hurt somebody or get murked by a cop or a bystander sooner or later.
	Another person said, this man jumped on me, grabbed my shoulders, pushed me toward the tracks Sunday night at this very station.
	I was able to run away, but he got physical and chased other people standing on the platform before getting on an uptown train.
	This whole thing is so sad.
	Well, yes, I mean, it is sad when you leave mentally ill people on the streets to pose a danger to themselves and others.
	It's a serious problem.
	This isn't going to stop the crowds from protesting because, again, the racial component is a large part of this.
	The media?
	A huge narrative for the media is that America is a systemically racist society.
	New York City is a really, really bad place to pretend that that is the case, because the vast majority of violent crime in New York City is committed by people of minority status.
	That is just a fact.
	An extraordinary percentage, a very, very high percentage of all violent crime in New York City is committed by people who are either black or Hispanic.
	Most of the victims are also black or Hispanic.
	Pretending that New York City is like the center of white-on-black violence or white-on-Hispanic violence or any of the rest of this is just garbage.
	But the media needs stories.
	They need stories, which is why this will be a national story.
	Another story that will not be a national story for more than five minutes is this Atlanta mass shootings.
	There was an active shooter incident in Atlanta yesterday as well.
	A gunman was accused of shooting five people at a medical facility in Midtown and killing one of them.
	He was taken into custody after an hours-long manhunt that paralyzed Metro Atlanta.
	That story is not going to be a national news story for more than five seconds because the shooter in this particular case is black.
	He's 24 years old and he walked into the waiting room of a Northside hospital medical office Wednesday around noon.
	He killed one woman.
	He wounded four others.
	Three of the victims are in critical condition.
	But again, this is not going to be a national news story because the shooter in this particular case is a person who is a minority and we're not allowed to pay national attention to that because if we paid national attention to this, then this presumably increases racism.
	But the way to really decrease racism in American society is to focus in on this case of Jordan Neely.
	And you can see the entire left responded.
	Like the entire left went into action.
	Now is the moment.
	It's gonna be just like George Floyd.
	Now again, the George Floyd case is controversial in its details.
	I am of the belief that George Floyd pretty obviously died of a heart attack.
	That George Floyd was struggling to breathe according to the tape itself in the car before he was even put on the ground and he asked to be taken out of the car.
	The evidence tended to show no damage to the neck, no damage to the trachea.
	So I'm of the opinion that the officer in that case is actually in prison wrongfully on a murder charge.
	You could say excessive force, but on a murder charge is wrong.
	But even put that aside, the media ran with the narrative in the George Floyd case that this is Evidence of white-on-black violence.
	That white-on-black violence is still the predominant issue in the United States.
	And so this is going to be the new George Floyd story.
	Is a white Marine took down a homeless black man.
	And that homeless black man was, of course, totally innocent.
	Had done nothing wrong.
	This was just a white-on-black crime, right?
	That's the way the media are going to play this.
	And you can already see the narrative starting to form in real time because the media are not spending an enormous amount of time reporting on the arrest record and activities of Jordan Neely.
	Instead, what you are seeing is left-wing activists trotting out video of him impersonating Michael Jackson on the subway.
	So, for example, the Working Family Party of New York, which is a far-left group in New York, they were putting out videos of Jordan Neely dancing As Michael Jackson on the subway.
	Well, if you were dancing as Michael Jackson on the subway, nobody would have been choking him out, obviously.
	It's that he was threatening people on the subway, and acting more and more psychotic on the subway.
	That is the reason that he was put in a submission hold in the first place.
	But that's not what you're gonna be told.
	Okay, here he is doing a Michael Jackson routine.
	And the New York Working Families Party tweeted out, Jordan Neely loved to dance and perform.
	On Tuesday, while suffering a mental health crisis, he was choked to death while people watched and cheered.
	So first of all, it's not true.
	There's no one in the tape who is cheering.
	People are trying to subdue him.
	And then he dies.
	Jordan needed care.
	Instead, he was brutally murdered.
	This is not who we are as New Yorkers.
	No.
	As New Yorkers, you are citizens of a city that will not protect you, which necessitates that civilians step in and actually do the protection.
	And again, the entire left wing activated.
	I mean, it was left wing power rangers to activate here.
	So, for example, you had Toure, who literally at one point, I believe earlier in his career, called Broccoli racist.
	He tweeted out, a homeless man yelling on the New York City subway is normal.
	We see that all the time.
	What's not normal is for a Marine to sneak up behind him, put him in a chokehold and unalive him.
	That's not justified.
	The Marine could have just done nothing.
	He should be charged.
	First of all, I do love the notion that in New York City, it is perfectly normal for homeless people to just yell at you on the subway.
	If you're a citizen of New York, you should just take it for granted that you're going to be assaulted on the subway.
	There's an amazing statement about New York City.
	Tariq Nasheed, who again, is a group of people who are looking for some some riots here.
	An innocent black man with a history of mental illness named Jordan Neely was brutally choked and murdered by a suspected white supremacist who the police refused to charge and the white media is protecting.
	Question, any evidence that this is a person who is a white supremacist at all?
	From Tariq Nasheed?
	We don't even know the guy's name.
	What is the evidence here?
	This culture of anti-black racism where suspected white supremacists are allowed to live out their Bernhard Goetz, Charles Bronson, death wish fantasies of murdering black people with impunity will not be tolerated.
	And it's not just, you know, professional racist agitators like Ture or Tariq Nasheed who are saying this sort of stuff.
	It's the inestimably stupid and vitriolic AOC.
	So, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who again, is a congressperson from this area, sounds it off as well.
	We'll get to that in just one moment.
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	So it's not just, you know, the professional racial agitators.
	It is also actual public officials who are sounding off on this.
	So Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who is just an egregious specimen of insipidity.
	Nincompoopism.
	She's a deeply stupid person.
	I'm not sure that Alex— I think that she's both stupid and malicious, which is a hard combination to do.
	I very often say when it comes to politics that I try to attribute most things to stupidity rather than malice, but she's both stupid and malicious.
	So she tweeted out, Jordan Neely was murdered.
	But because Jordan was houseless— houseless is the new euphemism.
	New euphemism just dropped, houseless.
	So we went from hobo to homeless to houseless.
	And crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor.
	The murderer gets protected with passive headlines plus no charges.
	It's disgusting.
	Can I point out that New York has been entirely democratic governed for the last decade?
	That Alexandre Ocasio-Cortez is a congressperson in this area?
	By the way, there are plenty of resources available for people who need a meal.
	There are homeless shelters in the city of New York.
	There's a person who is apparently a longtime drug addict, a person who is psychotically living on the streets, and it's New York government that has decided to allow this to happen.
	Why do you think the subway ridership has remained wildly down even after COVID?
	Mainly it's because people are afraid of being hit with a samurai sword or pushed onto the tracks by people like Jordan Neely.
	That is the reason why people are not riding the subways in New York City anymore.
	I know, I have lots of friends in New York City.
	It's an amazing thing.
	So, AOC sounded off, of course, because, again, they have to have the George Floyd narrative.
	The George Floyd narrative allows for them to play this inside-outside game with the federal government and with the state government, where they protest from the outside.
	They find friendly legislators to then drop very Progressive policies in the name of racial equity.
	That's the inside-outside protest game that gets played here.
	Riot game that gets played here.
	Ayanna Pressley did the same thing.
	Ayanna Pressley, another, she's the adjunct member of the squad.
	She's the Ringo Starr of the congressional squad.
	She tweeted out that same video of Jordan Ely dancing, dressed up as Michael Jackson.
	And she tweeted, he was 30 years old.
	Black men deserve to grow old, not be lynched on a subway because they were having a mental health crisis.
	Jordan deserved better.
	Accountability now, lynched.
	It's now lynching.
	So, the black guy who's holding down his arms, is he also involved in the lynching?
	And also, do any of the other citizens of New York City have rights, or is it their obligation to be physically assaulted, abused, screamed at, on the subways, without any intervention?
	Because, by the way, I will point out here that if the cops had done the exact same thing, it's not as though Ayanna Pressley and AOC would sound off any differently.
	In fact, it would be louder.
	They'd say, ah, look at these official sources, cracking down on the innocent black man.
	That's the shtick.
	Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller.
	He tweeted out something similar.
	He tweeted out, New York City is not Gotham.
	We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence or where the killer is justified and cheered.
	That is a New York City comptroller.
	Well, you know, as the New York City comptroller, if you would wish for that not to happen, you could let the cops do their job.
	You could.
	You know when this wasn't happening?
	Under Rudy Giuliani when he was mayor.
	You know when this also wasn't happening?
	When Michael Bloomberg was mayor.
	You know when it is happening?
	Post Bill de Blasio, post Eric Adams, post the wild left-wing turn of the city.
	The reason Rudy Giuliani became mayor in the first place is because this used to be how the subways were in the 1970s and 80s.
	That is the reason.
	Jabari Bruceport is a New York State Senator, District 25, and he also is using the similar language.
	Quote, Jordan Neely was lynched.
	He had no food, no water, no safe place to rest.
	He had the audacity to publicly yell about that massive injustice.
	So they killed him.
	Oh, is the yelling about the injustice is why not the threatening of the fellow passengers,
	not the not the fact that this person was again, psychotically violent and had an outstanding
	arrest warrant that had not been filled because there are not enough cops in New York City,
	and they haven't been given the actual ability to do their jobs.
	They're going to use the language of lynching.
	They're going to pretend that this is the exact same thing as like Emmett Till.
	Because they need the narrative, the narrative is necessary because they can't run based on their governance, their governance in New York.
	They're the ones in charge of the system.
	And so now they're gonna try to morph this into Bull Connor in Birmingham, Alabama, 1965.
	It's insane.
	It just demonstrates, once again, the facts do not matter to a group of people who actively wish for there to be protests, who actively wish for there to be race riots, who actively wish to make race relations in the United States worse.
	This is an ugly situation.
	It's a complex situation.
	But pretending that it is predominantly about racial discrimination And not about failures of law enforcement.
	Failures, by the way, of the mental health system.
	If this person was legitimately mentally ill, why was he allowed to live on the street for presumably a decade?
	Why?
	It is the highest form of cruelty and the left has been doing it for years.
	For years.
	I'm not a big government person, as everybody knows.
	I've been actively calling for 20 years for there to be better funding of mental health services.
	And not only that, yes, involuntary commitment of people who are psychotic.
	You cannot allow them to live on the streets threatening themselves and others.
	But the left opposes that stuff.
	They don't want people to be able to be committed.
	They think it's a right to live on the street and threaten to push people on the subway.
	And if someone protests, And if somebody stands up and stops somebody from threatening others in the subway system, then apparently that person is the vigilante.
	That person is violent.
	That person is scary.
	Black Entertainment Television did the exact same thing.
	BET tweeted out, he needed help.
	Instead, he got a death sentence.
	The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed the cause of death for Jordan Neely was determined to be compression of neck or chokehold.
	His performances on the subway didn't go unnoticed by the New York City community.
	Mental health is the discussion.
	What can we do to prevent this from happening again?
	Again, the answer is very obvious.
	You want to stop this sort of stuff from happening again?
	And then they tweet out, hashtag protect black men.
	You know what?
	You want to know how to stop this?
	The answer is very simple.
	When you have psychotic people living on the street, you involuntarily commit them and you give them medication they need.
	And if they refuse to take the medication, you give it to them anyway because they are psychotic.
	Okay, that is number one.
	Number two, you allow the cops to do their job in making sure these people are not psychotically threatening themselves and others on the streets.
	This is not difficult.
	The left doesn't want to do any of those things.
	So instead, the predictable consequence is people defend themselves and others.
	And when it goes wrong, when something bad happens, then we prosecute the person who actually attempted to protect others on the subway system.
	Meanwhile, the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, says, don't worry guys, the city's safe.
	We're going to continue making the city safe.
	You're doing an amazing job, mayor.
	It's not right for dangerous people to stay on our streets longer, but it's also not right for others to languish behind bars as the criminal justice process drags on.
	I'm confident today, broken together, we are going to move in the direction as the Governor stated.
	We're not spiking the ball, but we know we are moving towards the goal line.
	And we will be successful in making and continuing to have the city and state to be the safest state in America.
	Eric Adams was literally bragging about how safe New York City was yesterday when this person was choked down on the subway system.
	The slow clap for the geniuses in blue city governance who have decided to disinvest from the police to hamstring them and prevent them from enforcing the law and that it's a right for people to live on the streets.
	Just genius level stuff here.
	Ugh, it's so ugly.
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	Okay, so New York can't protect its citizens, it can't protect people who are psychotic
	or those psychotic people are victimizing, but they can definitely stop you from using your gas stove.
	So you remember that time when they completely gaslit you about natural gas?
	Like, they literally gaslit you.
	It's amazing.
	So they said, why are you guys so worried that we're gonna get rid of gas stoves?
	There's a story suggesting that New York, the EPA, that they were considering cracking down on gas stoves.
	And a lot of us who like to cook, we're like, you know what is really hard to do?
	Cook well on an electric stove.
	I hate electric stoves.
	With a fiery passion of a thousand suns.
	They're terrible.
	Electric stoves do not cook the same way.
	They just don't.
	Well, a lot of us got rather agitated about the idea that the EPA or state governments were going to start cracking down on gas stoves.
	And so the entire media was like, this is just a right wing lie.
	We are never coming after your gas stoves.
	Fast forward for like a month.
	New York has become the first state in the nation to pass a law banning natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings.
	A move that could help reshape how Americans heat and cook in their homes in the coming decades.
	Late Tuesday, the New York Legislature approved a $229 billion state budget that will prohibit natural gas hookups and other fossil fuels in most new homes and other construction, a major victory for climate activists.
	The move, which will likely face a court challenge from the fossil fuel industry, will serve as a test of states' power to ban fossil fuels outright, rather than simply encouraging developers to build low-carbon buildings.
	So what does the law do?
	Well, it requires all electric heating and cooking in new buildings shorter than seven stories by 2026 and in 2029 for taller buildings.
	It allows exemptions for manufacturing facilities, restaurants, hospitals, and car washes, but the measure doesn't do what some climate activists had feared, give cities and counties license to override the bans.
	That means that your local restaurant might still be able to use, you know, flame cooking, but you won't be able to.
	All so that the environmentalists can feel super good about themselves.
	By the way, the notion that this is going to radically reduce carbon emissions and therefore adjust the global temperature is insane.
	The amount of carbon emissions that are saved by shifting to electric stoves from gas stoves are not measurable.
	Compared to sort of world output of carbon emissions.
	It's totally nuts.
	But Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, was very excited about it.
	She said, this is really big stuff, guys.
	This is how you transition.
	Just like we had to go from long time ago to transition from coal as your energy source.
	We do have to transition.
	There are clean energy alternatives.
	It's going to take time.
	And I want to make sure that New Yorkers don't get hit hard for the cost.
	So we're going to roll this out.
	But new buildings that are going up, they can go electric.
	They can do heat pumps.
	This is how you transition.
	Man, I'm so glad they've got their priorities straight over in the state of New York and, broadly speaking, across the country.
	I mean, the Democrats really are on top of the things that matter.
	Like, for example, they're totally on top of immigration.
	I mean, they're not.
	At all.
	In fact, the New York Times reported last month that migrant children are being put to work across the country.
	So we now have the Biden administration presiding over a vast wave of illegal immigration that is ending with Dickensian street urchins working in the factories.
	It's amazing.
	It's amazing.
	These are the people who are like, we need to raise the minimum wage.
	We have to care for your children, are my children.
	They're all of our children, unless they're migrant children, in which case put them next to the fryer at McDonald's now.
	Go do it.
	According to the New York Times, In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at an arena in San Antonio that had been converted into an emergency shelter for migrant children.
	Thousands of boys were sleeping on cots as the Biden administration grappled with a record number of minors crossing into the United States without their parents.
	Because the Biden administration has refused to do the thing that the Trump administration did and keep families together.
	So instead, they decided to just release a bunch of minors into the interior with no actual guardians.
	That ended up badly.
	Ms.
	Bradmiller's job was to help vet sponsors.
	She'd been trained to look for possible trafficking.
	In her first week, two cases jumped out.
	One man told her he was sponsoring three boys to employ them at his construction company.
	Another, who lived in Florida, was trying to sponsor two kids who would have to work off the cost of bringing them north.
	Within days, she noticed one of the children was set to be released to the man in Florida.
	That's despite notifying the Department of Health and Human Services.
	She emailed the shelter manager.
	A few days later, her building access was revoked during her lunch break, and she was never told why she had been fired.
	Over the past two years, according to the New York Times, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States.
	Thousands of those kids have ended up in punishing jobs across the country, working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories, all in violation of child labor laws, according to a recent Times investigation.
	All along there were signs of this explosive growth in the labor force and warnings that the Biden administration ignored or missed, according to the New York Times.
	How Xavier Becerra, head of Health and Human Services, has retained his job is beyond me because, quote-unquote, veteran government staffers and outside contractors told HHS, including in reports that reached Becerra, that children appeared to be at risk.
	The Labor Department put out news releases noting an increase in child labor.
	Senior White House aides were shown evidence of exploitation, like clusters of migrant kids who'd been found working with industrial equipment or caustic chemicals.
	So they're taking, like, 14-year-old kids who were crossing the border illegally, and then they were shipping them off to guardians who ended up being You know, contractors with acid.
	As the administration scrambled to clear shelters that were strained beyond capacity, children were released with little support to sponsors who expected them to take on grueling, dangerous jobs.
	Amazing job, Biden administration.
	Just excellent, excellent job.
	250,000 migrants.
	This is back in April.
	And now it's getting worse.
	And now it's getting worse.
	We're supposed to be hit with, Title 42's ending.
	We're about to be hit with 10,000 illegal migrants arriving on the border every day.
	10,000 of them.
	And so the Biden administration is sending like 1,500 People to the border to try and help police this thing.
	Now, just quick flashback.
	Vice President Kamala Harris, one of the least talented politicians of our era.
	Flashback to 2018.
	Donald Trump was president.
	He sent troops to the border to try to crack down on the illegal immigration crisis.
	And she said it was inappropriate at the time.
	Thank the men and women who serve our military and serve in the United States Marine Corps.
	I also believe that the administration made a decision to deploy them based on a political agenda.
	And I believe that it is inappropriate to require the limited resources of the United States military to be used in such a way.
	Again, now they're sending 1,500 troops to the border.
	By the way, Corinne Jean-Pierre says, don't worry, it's all humane.
	She says, we'll deal with lifting Title 42 in a humane manner, says the least talented White House press secretary of all time.
	You mentioned that the administration is preparing for what is to come or what will occur after Title 42 lifts.
	Can you describe or provide some detail as to what the White House is anticipating when this COVID-era border restriction expires?
	We know, and I've said this, we have tools that are in front of us that the president's going to use to deal with what we are seeing at the border.
	And this is something that the president has taken initiative on since the beginning of this administration.
	And we want to do this in a safe, orderly, and humane way.
	This administration is just a rolling series of crises.
	Speaking of which, remember those regional bank crises?
	Those are not over, not remotely.
	We'll get to the latest possibly failing regional bank in just one second.
	First, you remember that President Trump recently issued a warning from Mar-a-Lago.
	Well, as we saw with First Republic Bank, you never know when your bank can go under.
	It's one reason why people are pulling their money out of regional banks and they are putting it into things like gold because they just don't trust the system.
	Totally understandable.
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	Also, We have a great new book out over at DW Books and it's really important right now when you watch what's happening with the Jordan Neely case and the quote-unquote systemically racist American system.
	There's one book that debunks all of this crap and that is Heather McDonald's brand new book, When Race Trumps Merit.
	Heather MacDonald is shutting down the malignant ideology of anti-racism in that book, When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.
	Heather's book exposes how BLM-fueled equity obsession is tearing down Western civilization, destroying meritocratic standards of achievement, because those standards apparently have a disparate impact on certain minorities.
	We're not enforcing criminal law because of all of that.
	The predictable result is stuff like Jordan Neely.
	Lowering standards, as Heather McDonald points out, jeopardizes scientific progress, destroys public order, poisons the appreciation of art and culture.
	Go check out When Race Trumps Merit by Heather McDonald.
	It is a brave book and it is a book that you are going to need to read.
	It's a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the country and worried for our future.
	It's available right now, When Race Trumps Merit, available at Amazon or wherever books are sold already, a national bestseller.
	Meanwhile, Joe Biden's fiscal crisis is not over, not by a long shot.
	So the Federal Reserve yesterday raised rates again by 25 basic points.
	Then they hinted at the possibility that they would pause the rate hikes.
	But we will see how long that lasts for because inflation continues to be embedded in the American economy.
	Powell said yesterday, Jay Powell, the Fed chair who has been a giant failure so far, that the economy is still likely to avoid recession.
	He may be the only one saying this.
	He said we've raised rates by 5 percentage points in 14 months.
	The unemployment rate is 3.5%, pretty much where it was, even lower than when we started.
	It wasn't supposed to be possible for job openings to decline by as much as they've declined with our unemployment going up.
	Well, that's what we've seen.
	He said he didn't rule out the possibility of an economic slump.
	And then he suggested that the biggest issue is raising the debt ceiling.
	No, it really, really is not.
	The biggest issue is that we have systemic debt problems in this country that will come to fruition at some point in the future.
	Small cuts to prevent the debt ceiling from being hit is a pretty solid deal that McCarthy is currently offering Joe Biden.
	But again, the reality is that no one thinks this current economic crisis is over.
	Here's Jay Powell talking about the debt ceiling.
	I'm wondering if you can talk about the account of possible effects of a debt limit standoff.
	You've said repeatedly that the ceiling must be raised, but do you see any economics effects of even getting close to a default, and what type of situation would that look like?
	So I wouldn't want to speculate specifically, but I will say this.
	These are fiscal policy matters, for starters, and they're for Congress and the administration for the elected parts of the government to deal with and They're really consigned to them.
	From our standpoint, I would just say this.
	It's essential that the debt ceiling be raised in a timely way so that the U.S.
	government can pay all of its bills when they're due.
	A failure to do that would be unprecedented.
	Maybe Powell should talk to Joe Biden about all of that.
	As far as the increases in the interest rate, he said a decision on a pause was not made today, but he said that there was a noticeable change in Fed guidance.
	Now, all of this did not stop the stock market from plunging yesterday.
	So you would have expected that after the Fed raised the rates, but then said, maybe we'll pause it, that people would have been kind of optimistic.
	Wrong.
	Stock futures declined on Thursday, the day after the Federal Reserve hiked rates by another 25 basis points.
	One reason is because of fears of contagion returning to regional banks.
	Over at Zero Hedge, they write earlier today when Jerome Powell openly lied to the American people during their press conference stating without a hint of irony that the US banking system is sound and resilient, we balked.
	How could this former lawyer lie so brazenly to the American people when in just the past few weeks we've seen over half a trillion in bank failures, making the current bank failure episode even worse than the global financial crisis?
	Well, the next regional bank collapse is already on its way.
	Shortly after close, Bloomberg reported that another regional California-based bank, PacWest Bank Corp., was weighing a range of strategic options, including a sale.
	It's a Beverly Hills-based bank.
	Its financial conditions were far worse than the Fed had thought.
	And it's been working with financial advisor.
	They've now been considering a breakup or a capital raise, according to Bloomberg sources.
	Why?
	Well, there was effectively a run on the bank.
	It turns out that a lot of people who are seeing the coming economic crisis, they're pulling their money from the banks because they don't believe that those banks are going to be able to Guarantee depositors.
	If you're a mid-sized regional bank with high levels of tech investment, for example, tech investors are pulling their money.
	They see hard times are coming.
	They need that money.
	They want it out before that bank collapses and they don't want to have to deal with the FDICs.
	They're just pulling out their money right now.
	This means that a lot of those banks who have over-invested in faith in the government, that's what bonds are, faith in the government, they got screwed because of those increased interest rates.
	And now a lot of those banks are Really on the edge.
	And you're going to see the large get larger.
	JPMorgan or something is going to eat up PacWest.
	On Tuesday, PacWest doubled 28% as investors retreated from regional bank stocks following JPMorgan's deal on Monday for First Republic Bank that did nothing to ease concerns about regional bank viability.
	Now again, there's a case to be made that the FDIC should have just stepped in if they wanted to maintain the existence of regional banks.
	I mean, they're subsidizing the deal anyway.
	Having a giant bank eat up a regional bank means, like I, as an investor, why would I leave my money at a regional bank?
	I would just pull it and I'd put it in the giant bank.
	I know the giant bank ain't gonna go under.
	The federal government won't allow it to go under.
	And then I don't have to worry about my cash or I'm going to take my money out and I'm going to put it in some other sort of fund.
	I'll put it in like a money market account.
	Why would I do that?
	So all these regional banks, there are a lot of regional banks that are in serious trouble.
	If you think that this thing is over, it is not remotely over at this point.
	So essentially this leaves the Fed with not a lot of choices.
	Either they're going to have to cut the rates in order to maintain the asset base of a lot of these regional banks, injecting liquidity, or they're going to see a lot more regional banks fail.
	So we're not remotely at the end of this thing yet.
	Meanwhile, there are new details that are now emerging about Joe Biden.
	Amazing story from the New York Post today.
	Quote, a whistleblower tip about a document allegedly putting President Biden at the center of a bribery scheme triggered a guessing game across Washington Wednesday as journalists and politicians poured over Biden's extensive history of interactions with his family's overseas business associates.
	Biden, 80, regularly met with son Hunter and brother James' international connections during and after his eight-year vice presidency, including citizens of China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, and Ukraine.
	However, the tip pertains to alleged wrongdoing by President Biden, meaning it may not necessarily involve figures linked to his relatives.
	So it's unclear exactly what is being alleged.
	All we know is that a whistleblower turned over a document that suggests bribery of Joe Biden himself.
	House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky and Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa revealed the whistleblower information on Wednesday.
	They said the tip involves an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
	Grassley said if it's as explosive as what we've heard, we expect it to be very difficult to get.
	But we know it's unclassified now.
	The American people deserve transparency from the FBI.
	This is what it is all about.
	Comer set the FBI a deadline of May 10th to produce the document, leaving at least a week for speculation to mount about the dealings and countries involved.
	So all we know I mean, it's very vague.
	All we know is a whistleblower has said there is a document that links Joe Biden to bribery.
	It involves a foreign national and it involves American policy.
	So there are a few areas where this could come up.
	One is Ukraine.
	Obviously, we've seen before the accusations that Hunter Biden was being paid by Burisma to basically make connections with Daddy, who was then vice president of the United States.
	And we also know that Joe Biden was flexing his power in Ukraine.
	It could theoretically be Mexico.
	According to the New York Post, Hunter Biden visited Mexico at least six years in a row from 2011 through 2016, while his father was VP.
	Details remain vague on the amount of money that changed hands and whether Joe Biden was involved at all.
	It could be Russia.
	Biden allegedly met with one of his son's Russian associates, billionaire Yelena Baturina, and her husband, former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, at the same April 2015 D.C.
	dinner that was attended by another Russian national.
	Bazzarino allegedly wired $3.5 million to a firm associated with Hunter more than a year prior, on February 14, 2014, and apparently met with Hunter and his associates Evan Archer that April in Lake Como, Italy.
	It could be Romania.
	It could be China.
	I mean, Hunter Biden was going around the world picking up bags of cash because his daddy was Joe Biden.
	So what are the chances that Joe Biden was not involved in any of this?
	Honest to goodness.
	Now, when it comes to charging people criminally, obviously, if there's smoke, there's fire doesn't apply, but we are not in a criminal court right now.
	So there's a lot of smoke.
	I mean, Hunter Biden was going to half a dozen countries and picking up like sacks of actual cash from foreign countries that are almost entirely dictatorships or corrupt oligarchies and using his daddy's name.
	And then his daddy was meeting with these people.
	So that doesn't look like the least corrupt thing you have ever seen.
	But don't worry, the media are focused in, like full bore, they're focused in on Clarence Thomas.
	So the latest accusation about Clarence Thomas?
	We know that Clarence Thomas is very close with a billionaire named Harlan Crow.
	Harlan Crow is conservative.
	Harlan Crow did vacations with Clarence Thomas.
	There's no accusation that Justice Thomas was involved in any case involving Harlan Crow.
	There's not even an accusation that he really violated his disclosure requirements as a Supreme Court justice.
	It doesn't matter.
	ProPublica is like going full bore after Clarence Thomas right now.
	They're really trying to force his retirement while Joe Biden is president.
	That's what's happening right now.
	So the latest accusation is that in 2008, Supreme Court Justice Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia.
	The boy was far from home.
	He had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
	for years because Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was six and said that he was raising him as a son, which seems like a very nice thing to do, right?
	He's his grandnephew.
	Tuition at the boarding school ran more than six grand a month.
	Thomas did not cover the bill.
	A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows that the company of Harlan Crowe paid the tuition.
	The payments extended beyond that month.
	Apparently, Crowe paid Martin's tuition the entire time he was a student there.
	Now, what's the accusation of corruption here?
	Is the accusation that Harlan Crowe somehow bought some sort of judgment from Clarence Thomas?
	Because, if so, I'm missing it.
	Like, there has to be another half to the accusation.
	If I give charity to a person, and then the person does nothing for me in return, I help out a friend.
	By the way, I've done this.
	You help out a friend with money.
	They need money in a crunch.
	Does that mean that it's corrupt?
	I mean, not unless I then demand something of them that's corrupt.
	Is there any allegation that Harlan Crowe demanded anything of Clarence Thomas, that Clarence Thomas delivered anything to Harlan Crowe?
	The answer, of course, is no.
	Which is why Mark Palletta, who's a friend of Justice Thomas, put out a statement today
	saying, the Thomas's have rarely spoken publicly about the remarkably generous efforts to help a
	child in need. They've always respected the privacy of this young man and his family.
	It's disappointing and painful, but unsurprising that some journalists and critics can't do the
	same. The Thomas's quietly and honorably devoted 12 years of their lives to helping a beloved child
	in desperate need of love, support, and guidance. In 1997, Justice Thomas and his wife brought their
	grandnephew to live with them.
	Their great-grandnephew, actually.
	They agreed to take in this young child, much as Justice Thomas' grandparents had done for him and his brother in 1955.
	Justice Thomas and his wife made immeasurable personal and financial sacrifices and poured every ounce of their lives and hearts into giving their great-nephew a chance to succeed.
	In the summer of 2006, the Thomases were struggling to find a school where they could send their great-nephew.
	In discussing these challenges with their dear friends, Harlan and Kathy Crowe, Harlan recommended the Thomases consider one more option, sending their great-nephew to Randolph-Macon Academy.
	Harlan had gone there.
	He thought the school would be a good fit.
	Harlan had financially supported Randolph-Macon since the 1980s.
	He had funded scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
	Harlan offered to pay the first year of Justice Thomas's great-nephew tuition in 2006.
	That payment went directly to the school.
	Harlan Crowe's office confirmed he did not pay the great-nephew's tuition for any other year at Randolph-Macon.
	After some time, Randolph-Macon recommended the great-nephew attend a boarding school in Georgia for a year.
	Harlan offered to pay the first year of tuition for their great-nephew at the Georgia school, and those tuition payments went directly to the school.
	By the next year, Thomas' great nephew returned to Randolph-Macon.
	He moved back to Savannah after he turned 18.
	The story is another attempt to manufacture a scandal about Justice Thomas.
	So what exactly is the scandal here?
	That Harlan Crow was generous in supporting a friend's great nephew in going to a private school.
	That is the supposed tremendous scandal.
	By the way, if that is a scandal, first of all, what a terrible man, Harlan Crow.
	You know, actually paying for tuition for kids.
	Just awful.
	Just absolutely awful.
	And again, there's been no allegation that either Justice Thomas violated his legal strictures in terms of reporting requirements, or two, that Harlan Crowe ever asked anything from Justice Thomas in the legal field.
	So it's an absurdity.
	You know how absurd it is?
	It's so absurd that we have a parallel case that the media just don't care about.
	According to Luke Rosiak over at Daily Wire, Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving Penguin Random House, despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, according to records.
	ProPublica doesn't care about that, apparently.
	So, Sonia Sotomayor literally took, like, $3 million in advances from Penguin Random House, and then she didn't recuse herself from a bunch of cases involving Penguin Random House.
	No, it doesn't matter.
	She's fine.
	She's a wise Latina woman.
	In 2010, she got a $1.2 million book advance from Knopf Doubleday Group, a part of the conglomerate.
	In 2012, she reported receiving two advance payments totaling $1.9 million.
	In 2013, she voted in a decision for whether the court should hear a case against the publisher called Aaron Greenspan v. Random House, despite then-fellow justice Stephen Breyer recusing after also receiving money from the publisher.
	Greenspan was a Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg's who wrote a book about the founding of Facebook and contended that Random House rejected his book proposal and awarded the deal to another author who copied the book and turned it into the social network.
	So, just as Breyer accused himself, Sotomayor did not.
	No one cares.
	In 2017, Sotomayor began receiving payments each year from Penguin Random House itself.
	That continued annually through at least 2021.
	The most recent disclosure available totaled more than $500,000.
	In all, she received $3.6 million from Penguin Random House or subsidiaries.
	And she just sat there and made a bunch of judgments and cases that involved Penguin Random House.
	No one seems to care.
	Again, there's not even an allegation that Harlan Kroll had a case ruled on by Justice Thomas.
	Doesn't matter.
	This is all an attempt to get Thomas.
	It's the thing that the left wants more than anything.
	Well, it's not going to happen.
	Well, meanwhile...
	Again, Joe Biden's administration has been a boon to everyone, including 8th graders.
	We have a report from the Wall Street Journal showing that 8th graders' test scores in U.S.
	History and Civics fell to the lowest levels on record last year.
	So, the kids are getting stupider.
	No shock.
	In the first release of U.S.
	History and Civics scores since the start of the pandemic, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, showed a decline in student knowledge that reversed all gains made since the 1990s.
	According to the data, 13% of 8th graders met proficiency standards for U.S.
	History.
	13%, meaning they could explain major themes, periods, events, people, ideas, and turning points in the country's history.
	About a fifth of students scored at or above the proficient level in civics.
	Declines in students' understanding of U.S.
	history that occurred before the pandemic continued.
	Long-standing gaps in student achievement across specific groups persisted, according to data.
	Low-performing 8th grade students had significant drops in civics and U.S.
	history scores.
	High-performing students mainly held steady.
	This is, of course, true.
	Bad educational systems?
	They tend not to affect the highest performers because the highest performers are still smart.
	The kids who have trouble, however, get left behind.
	The falling federal test scores in U.S.
	history and civics coincide with the downward spiral seen in other subjects tested since the pandemic.
	Peggy Carr, National Center for Educational Statistics Commissioner, said that she was shocked by all of this.
	She called it woefully low in comparison to other subjects.
	The average score in 2022 for 8th grade students in U.S.
	history was 258 out of 500.
	So everyone is failing, apparently.
	There's really solid stuff right there.
	And of course, there are racial disparities in the statistics.
	The fact that the federal government has focused in on wokeism in the schools, if the schools were open at all, has not helped matters whatsoever.
	This is why, by the way, it is fun to watch everybody who's involved in shutting down the schools now running headlong from their own positions.
	So Anthony Fauci yesterday had the temerity to suggest that we have to stop playing the blame game about shutting down the schools.
	Dude, I see why you want to escape the blame game.
	I have some feelings as to why you wish to escape the blame game.
	Some of us were saying schools should be open as of like the summer of 2020.
	But I want to know what you think.
	You and the community got wrong.
	down because the stats were very clear. The kids were not getting sick.
	I had to move my kids to Florida to find an open school.
	And it is absurd. Here's Anthony Fauci, one of the most damaging people in
	possibly human history.
	But I want to know what you think.
	You and the community got wrong.
	Was the closing of the schools too draconian?
	How much of a delay did the fact that nobody fully understood the asymptomatic
	spread of this? Nobody figured out that it could actually bust through certain
	vaccine levels as well.
	What are the real takeaways, the real lessons for public health?
	I think we have to get away from the blame game because so many of the things that you have mentioned were unknowns at the time.
	We have to get away from the blame game.
	Well, I mean, you could either, you know, attempt to avoid the blame game because this is your fault, or you could just lie.
	So Corinne Jean-Pierre says that they tried to open the schools.
	This is the world's worst White House press secretary.
	Here she is explaining.
	No, we did.
	We really tried to open the schools.
	No, you didn't.
	You're working at the behest of Randy Weingarten, whose main job was to make sure that teachers stayed home and got paid for doing nothing.
	Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre.
	Oof.
	Look, as you just said, kids have lost so much in the pandemic.
	This is why when the president walked in, he made that he made a priority to open schools.
	One of the things that was important to make sure that our kids who have lost so much were able to go back in person school if they choose, have the resources that they needed that to really succeed and move forward in their education.
	And we saw that unfortunately, the pandemic had Liar.
	Liar.
	These people are liars!
	Again, I wish I could say stupidity.
	Malice.
	That is a lie.
	That is an outright lie.
	The CDC was openly changing its standards on how to reopen schools based on the advice of non-scientist, non-epidemiologist Randy Weingarten who does not give a crap about the nation's kids.
	These people are liars!
	You want to know why the educational attainment has gone down in the United States?
	Because these people have taken over the entire educational system, and their insistence is that they be able to shut down when they want, and open when they want, and not only shut down and open when they want, also teach the kids books like Genderqueer.
	This is the most important thing.
	Kids don't need to know anything about American civics or history.
	What they really need to know is critical race theory and gender identity.
	That's the thing.
	That's why, if you listen to the left these days about education, what is their chief priority?
	Fighting school choice and making sure that states do not pass laws barring critical race theory and teaching of sexual orientation in schools.
	This is the thing they care most about.
	This is why you have Kamala Harris again, World's Worst Vice President, suggesting that the great risk to kids right now is the banning of books.
	Now, what she never mentions is that what we are talking about when we say banning books is not providing pornography to children in school libraries.
	She doesn't mention that.
	The biggest problem in our schools right now is not quote-unquote book banning.
	It's that the kids can't read.
	And they can't read because you guys don't care about whether the kids read.
	These are factories for ignorance promoted by the federal government at the expense of billions of dollars.
	And when we think about where we've been in the last few years in terms of everything from anti-Asian hate crime to what we are looking at in terms of attacks on fundamental freedoms like those That of a woman to make decisions and a person to make decisions about their body.
	To the attacks we're seeing on voting rights.
	To the attacks we're seeing on LGBTQ and trans folks.
	The attacks we're seeing where there are literally, can you imagine in this year of our Lord 2023, book bans?
	Year of our Lord.
	I mean really, like what?
	She's a religious lady, Kamala Harris.
	Deeply.
	Book bans!
	Okay, the kids, if you had your druthers, the kids couldn't even read.
	They'd just be getting Drag Queen Story Hour.
	Kids being read to by drag queens.
	That's like your top priority.
	And they wonder why educational performance is down.
	Because maybe you don't care about the education.
	You don't.
	I've yet to find a democratic school district in a major American city that is doing, like, an amazing job.
	Show me.
	Really, I'm waiting to hear.
	I was a student in LAUSD.
	The only functional schools were magnet schools, which they then attempted to shut down.
	The same thing happened in New York City.
	It's... These people are absurd.
	And then claiming that they tried to reopen the schools during the pandemic.
	We can all see you guys lying.
	We can all see you lying.
	Ugh, it's frustrating.
	Okay, time for some things I like and some things that I hate.
	So...
	Things that I like.
	Denis Villeneuve, the director, that dude is on, like, a historically good movie run.
	If you look at his IMDB over the past few years, just tremendous.
	So he had Dune in 2021, and then in 2017 he had Blade Runner 2049, which is a really good movie.
	He had Arrival in 2016, which is a really good movie.
	He had Sicario in 2015, which is a really good movie.
	So his last few movies have been all good to great.
	I thought Dune Part 1 was spectacular.
	I thought it was fantastic.
	And now, he's dropped the trailer for Dune Part 2.
	I'm here for it.
	I'm definitely here for it.
	Here's a bit of the trailer.
	Imagine water.
	If you dive in, you can't reach the bottom.
	You dive in?
	Yes.
	It's called swimming.
	I don't believe you.
	In the shadows of Arrakis lie many secrets.
	But the darkest is the long way remaining.
	Look at the cast on this film, by the way.
	It's a hell of a cast.
	My father didn't believe in revenge.
	Nothing fancy.
	I understand.
	Nothing fancy.
	There are very few films that are made now that demand to be seen on the big screen.
	This is definitely going to be one of them.
	Javier Bardem and...
	Austin Butler is in the villain, I believe.
	No?
	Honestly, the weak link in this film is going to be Timothee Chalamet.
	I do not understand.
	I honestly, God, do not understand the Timothee Chalamet of it.
	I don't understand why that guy's in, like, every movie.
	But the rest of the cast is spectacular.
	The biggest problem with Dune 1 is that everyone is great, except for Timothee Chalamet.
	But, I mean, come on.
	This looks great, right?
	So, when I get excited about a movie, that's a fun thing.
	So, hopefully, that movie comes out November 3rd.
	So that's gonna be a bit of a wait, but it looks great.
	It looks just spectacular.
	Okay, time for some things that I hate.
	Okay, so first thing that I hate today, it is amazing.
	So Dave Portnoy, this is the problem with, you know, being corporately funded.
	So Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy had to announce on Wednesday that one of their popular hosts, a guy named Ben Mintz, was fired from the company after he said a racial slur accidentally while reading rap lyrics on a live stream earlier this week.
	So he made the mistake of, he was reading, he was on a live stream, and he was reading the rap lyrics.
	And as he went through the rap lyrics, I believe he used the N-word.
	Reading rap lyrics.
	And Barstool's parent company, Penn Entertainment, forced Portnoy to fire him.
	The entire Barstool team was against this.
	Barstool CEO Erica Nardini and longtime talent Dan Katz said that he made an honest mistake.
	Mince tweeted this morning, I made an unforgivable mistake slipping on air while reading a song lyric.
	It's not an unforgivable mistake, it's just a normal mistake.
	I'm sorry.
	The only thing that makes a mistake unforgivable is when people are unforgiving and jackasses.
	He clearly did not mean harm.
	He wasn't calling somebody the n-word.
	He was reading a lyric.
	He said, I meant no harm.
	I've never felt worse about anything.
	I apologize for my actions.
	I'm truly sorry and ashamed of myself.
	Honestly, we get...
	More abject apologies in American culture for somebody accidentally saying the N-word while reading rap lyrics than we do from actual murderers and rapists in our society.
	It's an amazing thing.
	Penn acquired 36% of Barstool Sports from the churning group for $163 million in early 2020, and they bought the remainder of the company for an additional $388 million this past February.
	Portnoy said that the parent company made the call to fire Mintz over concern the incident could jeopardize regulatory gambling licenses across the country.
	How?
	What does that have to do with regulatory gambling licenses?
	Exactly.
	Penn paid a lot of money for Barstool, said Portnoy.
	They have to make the best decisions to protect their business.
	I trust and respect Jason Oden, who's the Penn CEO, and he's doing what he thinks is right.
	Doesn't mean I'll always agree, but he deals with things I don't have to think about.
	He said, Portnoy said, they believe there's a chance a lot of state could pull their licenses because of that.
	That's nonsense.
	That's nonsense.
	That's just, that's corporate, that's corporate cowardice by Penn, right there.
	I feel bad for Portnoy in the sense that, you know, he made a business deal.
	Once those strings are attached, though, the strings are attached.
	And that is a stupid and ugly situation, obviously.
	I was very impressed by their forecheck, their battle level.
	I was very impressed by their forecheck, their battle level.
	Big game for...
	They didn't pack a lunch!
	Listen, maybe they need to pack a Lizzo-sized lunch.
	Because, you know, they weren't prepared in my opinion.
	Okay, so P.K.
	Sobin says a Lizzo-sized lunch, and people got mad.
	So the good news for P.K.
	Sobin is that he's black, so they won't accuse him of racism.
	If a white person said it, then they accuse him of racism.
	But some Twitter users were very upset about all of this.
	The 33-year-old athlete joined ESPN as a hockey analyst last fall.
	He hadn't addressed the controversy so far, nor should he, because there's nothing wrong with saying Lizzo Size Lunch.
	She is a literal fat activist who made a show on Netflix about how fat she is.
	Is she not fat?
	Are we supposed to pretend she's skinny?
	Her whole point is that she's fat and beautiful.
	He didn't even say that she's not attractive.
	He just said Lizzo Size Lunch.
	Apparently that's controversial now.
	Amazing what now counts as controversial.
	Also amazing what counts as not controversial.
	So, video has now emerged of a trans influencer I don't really personally use passing as, like, my threshold for womanhood.
	I understand that a lot of trans people want to pass.
	It's a goal.
	I respect it deeply.
	It is not one of mine.
	It's not how my fluidity functions.
	I don't live for the validation of other people deciding what they think that my gender
	passes as.
	I love my presentation. I don't need your validation from it. I do not receive this.
	And I would really caution you about policing other people's gender expressions
	because it's just not your f***ing business. If you look at me and you see a man,
	that's your transphobia that you are projecting onto people like me,
	and you're just making the world less safe.
	So, Harry or Dylan Mulvaney just dropped. If this dude says that if you look at him
	and you see a man, it's because you're a transphobe.
	So gentlemen, if you do not wish to have sex with this very obvious male who has full facial hair, body hair, penis, and balls, you're gay.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	If you don't wanna screw that, dude, you're gay.
	That's just the way it works.
	That's the way it works.
	I didn't make the rules.
	They made the rules.
	This is the society in which we now live.
	Yeah, through the looking glass, people.
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